Introduction to Twitter

Essential Questions

1. Why do you think people use Twitter?

I think people use Twitter because it is popular and easy to use.

2. How can Twitter be used in a classroom?

Twitter can be used in a classroom through students following a teacher on twitter and the teacher can give out assignments through twitter.

3. Twitter is a popular social media tool, what audiences do you think use Twitter, explain your answer?

I think people that use Twitter are business owner(to advertise their products and/or services), government(to tell others about the latest update news, and normal daily people(to communicate with other people.

After the Lesson Questions

1. Why do you think people use Twitter?

I think people use Twitter because it is easy and popular. It can help people to communicate with others instantly.

2. How can Twitter be used in a classroom?

Twitter can be used in a classroom through the teacher giving out assignments on twitter and the students follows the teacher to get the assignment. The students answer their answer in the reply box of the teacher's post.

3. Twitter is a popular social media tool, what audiences do you think use Twitter, explain your answer?

I think the people that use Twitter are organizations, school, adults, students, stars/famous people. Organization use it to spread advertisments. School use it to spread events and inform others about info in school. Adults use it for their work and communicate with their friends. Students might use it for school purposes and communicating with their friends. Famous people would use Twitter as a source of fame and popularity.


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Twitter is a large social media network online that allows a person to connect with others as long as there is internet.

History Facts about Twitter:
  • Twitter was launched on March 21, 2006 under the command of Jack Dorsey.
  • Twitter was first called status and its original product name is twittr.
Source: The history of twitter (URL: http://profilerehab.com/twitter-help/history_of_twitter) Date:NA

Items that are important to know about Twitter:
  • Block a person when he or she is spamming you.
  • A post on twitter can only contain 140 characters.
  • Tweet is the word for a post on twitter.
  • A person can tweet through computer, phone, twitter apps, etc.
  • The symbol @ is used to make note of who is this post for.

Source: The 8 most important things to know about using Twitter URL:
http://60secondmarketer.com/60SecondArticles/Social%20Media/the8mostimportan.html Date:NA

Summary for the video and the 10 ways: Twitter is a social media netsork online. Its posts are called tweets and each tweet can only contain 140 characters. With 140 characters, a person must express their thoughts in very few words. Posts on twitter is usually an update of what the person is doing, spread news/events, to chat, to share links, etc. Twitter is useful and easy to use. I only that a few steps to create an account on twitter.
Source: Introductiontion to Twitter URL: http://socialmediaclassmhs.wikispaces.com/Twitter Date:NA
Video: How to Use Twitter

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Summary between the two Twitter accounts: The two accounts I follow on Twitter are Google and Apple. They are both large company that vast across the world. Though their tweets on Twitter, I found that they are advertising their products and their services online. So large company also need the use of Twitter to spread their products. They also post events they will have and having now on Twitter for everyone to see and join. Apple post a lot mot posts than Google, but they repeat a single post for everyone to see. It is good because it reminds people that receive many tweets about their organization's events but it will get aggravating after a few time.